WARSAW – A Polish writer is being facing up to three years of imprisonment for calling the nation's president a “moron” on social media.
Jakub Zulczyk had criticized the manner in which Polish President Andrzej Duda — a close ally of former President Donald Trump — had reacted to the electoral victory of President Joe Biden last year.
Zulczyk wrote on Facebook on Monday that a district prosecutor in Warsaw had filed an indictment against him based on an article in the penal code that makes it a crime to insult the head of state.
Zulczyk said he believed that he is probably "the first writer in this country in a long time to be tried for what they wrote.” People have also been charged in the past for insulting previous Polish presidents in